Dial "S" for Sonny
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| Studio album by Sonny Clark | ||||
| Released | December 1957 | |||
| Recorded | July 21, 1957 Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack |
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| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:55 | |||
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Blue Note BLP 1570 |
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| Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
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| Allmusic |   |
Dial "S" for Sonny is the debut album by jazz pianist Sonny Clark recorded for the Blue Note label and performed by Clark with Art Farmer, Curtis Fuller, Hank Mobley, Wilbur Ware, and Louis Hayes.
Critic John S. Wilson, in a contemporaneous review, remarked negatively that "Art Farmer contributes some crackling solos to Dial S for Sonny, [...] but he has to fight a chomp-chomp rhythm section". The album was awarded 3 stars by Stephen Thomas Erlewine in an Allmusic review which stated: "Dial "S" for Sonny, Sonny Clark's first session for Blue Note Records and his first session as a leader, is a terrific set of laidback bop, highlighted by Clark's liquid, swinging solos... Clark steals the show in this set of fine, straight-ahead bop."
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